Job Summary

• Serve as gatekeeper of production, ensuring only quality, tested, and approved changes reach production environments
• Ensure production meets quality standards, maintaining high standards of system reliability, performance, and security
• Support maintenance of application BAU activities such as resilience, risk management, disaster recovery, batch management, incident management, problem management, change management

Key Responsibilities

• This is an individual contributor role focused on hands-on technical execution and operational support. No people management or formal leadership responsibilities.
• Production System Stability - Maintain assigned systems with minimal downtime through proactive monitoring and rapid incident response
• Quality Deployment Execution - Execute error-free production deployments following established procedures and quality gates
• Operational Excellence - Deliver consistent, reliable day-to-day production support within defined SLAs
• Drives proactive prevention through continuous monitoring, automation, and systematic improvement to eliminate incidents before they impact business operations

Skills and Experience

Must-have Skills
• Atleast 3+ Years of experience in Mainframe development or support
• COBOL, CICS, Easitrieve, JCL, VSAM
• Linux, Scripting, Python, Java, API

Motivations

• Energized by solving complex technical challenges that directly protect business operations while continuously learning and improving systems through precision, collaboration, and proactive problem prevention.

Qualifications

Key Experiences
• Experience in mainframe application development, engineering or support on both online CICS and batch processing. Experience in Linux, Java & API will be added advantages.
Certifications / Qualifications
• Bachelor of Science or higher in Computer Science/Information Technology/Engineering & related fields
Languages
• English

About Standard Chartered

We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 years, we've worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you're looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents and we can't wait to see the talents you can bring us.

Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you'll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion.

Together we:

• Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
• Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
• Are better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

What we offer

In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.

• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
• Time-off including annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum.
• Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
• Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
• A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning.
• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.